UCM student Anja Selmer has won the annual ESST prize for her paper ‘Disabling Heteronormative Sexuality: The promises and Limitations of Sexual Surrogacy for People with Disabilities’. The ESST Undergraduate Essay Prize (€500) goes annually to the best-submitted paper on some aspect of science, technology and society relations. It is awarded by the international network that our MA ESST is part of.

BA ES student Jeanine de Bruin and FASoS staff member Patrick Bijsmans presented their ongoing research project with Afke Groen during the 18th Biannual EARLI Conference, from 12 to 16 August 2019 in Aachen (Germany). Jeanine delivered the actual presentation, entitled ‘The role of social support in students’ transition to university. The case of Problem-Based Learning’, during this high-level teaching and learning conference.

Do you use ethnographic methods in your research or teaching? Do you want to exchange and discuss experiences with fellow ethnographers? Then you might want to join the Ethnography Group!

Since 2013, the Ethnography Group has grown into an interdisciplinary group of over 60 researchers and teachers from Faculties across the university who meet to discuss ethnographic concerns every month.

From 24-28 June 2019 FASoS hosted the European leg of the 3rd Summer School of the CMM Project, an EU-funded Jean Monnet Network devoted to studying the Challenges for Multiculturalism and Multilateralism in Europe and Southeast Asia. Some 30 students from across Asia and Europe were selected for this year’s summer school which started with one week of educational and social activities in Singapore before moving to Maastricht.

Are you curious what difference you can make for the people around you? Do you dream of having a real impact in your community and a society in which people look after each other? Do you speak basic Dutch? Apply now for Match Maastricht!

In a Match House you connect your neighbourhood. Together with your housemates you organise social projects. In exchange for your effort (8-10 hours a week), you pay a reduced rent (< €100 a month).

In the latest FASoS Teaching & Learning Blog post, BA ES students Kirstin Herbst and Sarah Goosens look back on two years of experience with Problem Based Learning (PBL). They discuss the one aspect of PBL that they find crucial: collaboration during tutorials, and explain why open-mindedness and active listening are crucial for this.

Also want to reflect on your experience in PBL? Leave your comments or contribute your own blog post!

Please note there will be no FASoS Weekly between Monday 1 July and Friday 16 August 2019. The last FASoS Weekly before the summer break will be published on Thursday 27 June. The first edition after the summer break will be published on Thursday 22 August.

The elections to the European Parliament took place from 23-26 May. We would like to invite you to complete a post-election survey, which takes less than 5 minutes to fill out. By filling out the survey you would help with research on political representation in Europe.

On 1 September, Prof. Joep Leerssen has been appointed as special chair Limburg and Europe at FASoS. Read more about his plans to (amongst others) address the European dimensions of historical developments in today’s Limburg, here: bit.ly/2kGyFappic.twitter.com/6oXX…